‘To My Sugar Plum’ 

Sugar Plum has been my grandmothers pet name for me ever since I can remember. I have collected and saved cards and messages she has written for me over the years, always addressing me as ‘Sugar Plum’. These messages have featured strongly on my printed pieces. 

My grandmother has been one of my biggest inspirations and influences. A bold, strong and painfully honest woman, some of my favourite memories are from summers spent with her in the little mobile.

‘To My Sugar Plum’ is an androgynous collection that pays homage to my grandmother. This collection is a nostalgic reflection of my childhood summer holidays spent with my grandmother in her mobile home down in Kilmuckridge, County Wexford.

In the outset of this degree collection, I began drawing inspiration from family photographs of the summer holidays I experienced as a child, as well as photographs found of my grandmother and her four sisters on their own summer holidays in the 1950’s.

Upon visiting her mobile home, interiors such as the quilted couches, mesh curtains and floral wallpapers began to inform knitwear and fabric sampling. The ever-charismatic yet weathered exteriors of the mobile stimulated colour palettes and prints. The exterior pieces of this collection are a reflection on the outermost parts of the mobile home, while the interior pieces reflect upon the family within.

shot & edited by Cian Redmond

assisted by Kevin O’Flaherty

modelled by Ben Harte, Orla Kelly & Jordan Cassidy

thankful for these wonderful people I get to call my friends